Halo semuanya, apa kabar Anda hari ini? Masih “panas” semangatnya untuk berbisnis di internet, kan? Great! Keep up the spirit!
Well, hari ini saya baru saja menyelesaikan sebuah list yang berisikan list tentang apa-apa saja yang bisa menghambat kesuksean seorang pemula (newbie) — yang sebaiknya jangan Anda lakukan.
List berikut saya dapat dari pengalaman saya pribadi selama beberapa tahun berbisnis online dan juga dari hasil “petualangan” saya membeli berbagai produk internet marketing. Saya harap list berikut ini dapat membantu Anda.
Tapi ingat, list ini khusus untuk Anda yang sudah memulai mengambil action untuk berbisnis online dan bagi Anda masih newbie. Dan berhubung posting ini untuk yang masih newbie, jadi bagi Anda yang sudah (merasa) master atau Anda yang masih belum memulai, jangan komplain =)
So, here goes the list :
(1). Mencoba “menjadi diri Anda sendiri”
Nasehat yang aneh, bukan? Tapi ini memang benar : sebagai newbie (pemula) Anda jangan coba-coba untuk “mencari jalan sendiri” menuju kesuksesan.
Oke mungkin di kehidupan sosial Anda bisa berkata “be yourself”. Tapi ini bisnis, teman…
Dulu saya juga ada perasaan untuk bisa mencari uang dengan cara saya sendiri, dengan menemukan cara yang unik yang tidak diketahui orang lain. Saya berpikir dengan seperti itu saya akan bisa mencari “celah” uang yang belum dimasuki orang lain.
Tapi pada faktanya, hal seperti itu susah diharapkan. Sebagai seorang newbie (pemula) Anda masih kurang ilmu, kurang pengalaman yang sebetulnya sangat diperlukan untuk bisa membuat “celah” yang Anda inginkan tersebut. Akibatnya Anda tidak akan pernah menemukannya sama sekali.
Saran saya : "Jika Anda seorang newbie, lebih baik ikuti cara yang umum saja dalam perjalanan make money online Anda. Belajar dari yang sudah ahlinya, ikuti nasehat para master, para guru. Mereka ada di sana untuk membagi ilmunya kepada Anda, mereka sudah berpengalaman dan tahu cara yang tepat. Nanti kalau Anda sudah (merasa) master, baru coba eksperimen sendiri".
Kalau Thomas Alva Edison sudah berhasil menemukan bola lampu, ngapain Anda capek-capek mencoba “menemukan benda yang dapat berpijar menerangi kamar”? Do not re-invent the wheel.
(2). Malas mencoba dan malas mencari tahu
Hal kedua yang sangat menghambat kesuksesan para newbie adalah malas mencoba dan malas mencari tahu.
Maksudnya, mereka jarang belajar dari pengalaman orang lain, malas mencari tahu. Yang mereka lakukan, sekali lagi, adalah coba-coba sendiri saja, walau yang seharusnya mereka lakukan adalah belajar dulu dari yang sudah berpengalaman. Hasilnya : apa yang mereka pelajari menjadi salah total.
Selain itu kebanyakan newbie hanya membaca dan membaca tentang how to make money online. Tapi sayangnya : mereka hanya membaca, tidak mempraktekkannya. Dan hasilnya jelas : gmana mau dapat uang kalau enggak bekerja?
Jadi saran saya untuk para newbie adalah : belajar dari guru yang jelas sudah ahli, lalu praktekkan. Jangan mencari tahu sendiri dan jangan lupa mempraktekkannya.
(3). Tidak membeli produk pembelajaran
Kesalahan ketiga bagi para newbie yang ingin lebih cepat belajar berbisnis online adalah : tidak mau membeli produk pembelajaran yang ada di internet, entah itu ebook atau video training atau membership training.
Berpikir saya promosi produk saya? Well, tidak. Saya tidak bermaksud berkata bahwa Anda harus beli produk saya. Tapi maksud saya : tidak mau membeli produk master internet marketing yang mana pun, guru yang lokal ataupun yang “interlokal”.
Kenapa harus membeli? Simple, alasannya karena untuk mempersingkat waktu belajar Anda. Itu saja. Seperti Anda tahu semua bahwa berbagai produk internet marketing yang Ada adalah sebuah bentuk rangkuman dari berbagai ilmu bisnis online yang dimiliki para guru tersebut.
Jadi dengan memiliki produk mereka, Anda seolah-olah memiliki rangkuman ilmu yang mereka miliki yang pada akhirnya membuat proses belajar Anda menjadi lebih cepat. Itu yang saya maksud dengan mempersingkat waktu belajar Anda. Jadi, jangan ragu untuk “membeli ilmu”.
Ok, mungkin Anda bisa temukan sebagian materi yang diberikan secara gratis, tanpa harus membeli produk, seperti dengan blogwalking. Hanya saja, biasanya di dalam sebuah produk (apapun), akan selalu ada nilai lebih yang bisa Anda dapatkan, seperti support dari sang pembuat produk, member forum, alur kerja yg jelas (blue print) dan sebagainya yang tidak akan Anda dapati dari berbagai tempat mencari ilmu gratisan yang lainnya.
Pernahkah Anda menemui sebuah blog yang membahas suatu bisnis satu persatu, detil langkah per langkah dan sang pemilik blog melayani 200+ email per hari secara free? Saya rasa tidak.
Jadi jangan ragu untuk berinvestasi sedikit, untuk mendapatkan hasil yang lebih banyak. Beli panduan yang Anda rasa cocok untuk Anda (ingin yang tipe menjelaskan berbagai bisnis secara overview? atau yang membahas satu bisnis secara mendetail?).
Jangan hanya berkutat dengan yang gratisan jika Anda bisa mendapat yang jauh lebih banyak dengan harga yang tidak seberapa. Ingat : untuk setiap produk berbayar, selalu ada nilai lebih yang Anda dapatkan dari setiap rupiah yang Anda bayarkan.
(Saya sendiri rajin beli berbagai produk baru untuk menambah skill saya. Investasi ilmu == tidak ada ruginya, ingat itu.)
(4). Jangan membeli banyak produk sekaligus
Nah, sekarang jika Anda telah membeli produk panduan, langkah selanjutnya adalah pelajari dan ikuti setiap detail yang diberikan oleh pembuat produk. That’s it.
Kebanyakan kesalahan para pemula adalah ketika mereka sudah membeli sebuah produk maka mereka akan ingin membeli produk lainnya. Jika Anda termasuk yang seperti itu, saya katakan bahwa Anda salah besar. Yang harus Anda lakukan adalah mempelajari, mengikuti, making money dan bukan membeli dan terus membeli.
Simpan uang Anda untuk biaya internet dan biaya promosi. Bukan untuk terus membeli.
(5). Mengharap untung cepat ekstra cepat
Alasannya? Karena Anda masih newbie, =)
Kenapa saya bilang alasan Anda karena Anda masih newbie? Karena biasanya newbie akan gagal dalam beberapa langkah pertama karena tidak tahu apa saja yang membuat rugi dan apa saja yang membuat untung. Jadi kalau Anda berharap banyak, Anda akan kecewa. Karenanya, Anda harus berani gagal.
Adalah omong kosong kalau Anda mengharap sukses dalam semalam (ekstra cepat) tetapi Anda belum pernah merasakan gagal pada awalnya. Itu bagaikan Anda bisa berjalan (bahkan berlari) tapi belum pernah belajar merangkak. Kalau kata orang bule : bullsh*t.
Nah nanti seiring berjalannya waktu Anda akan mendapat banyak pengalaman dan tahu cara apa yang harus dilakukan dan apa yang tidak plus Anda sudah tahu perkiraan perhitungannya. Kalau sudah sampai tahap itu, silakan saja Anda membuat berbagai asumsi bisnis.
Informasi :
Saya tidak mengatakan jangan mengharap untung dengan cepat, tapi saya mengatakan mengharap untung dalam semalam (ekstra cepat). Kenapa? Sebab saya kenal (dan sempat berbincang-bincang) dengan super affiliate marketer (dari Bandung) yang bisa menghasilkan milyaran rupiah hanya dalam 1-2 tahun via berbisnis di internet — dan bagi saya milyaran rupiah dalam 1-2 tahun itu termasuk cepat (bahkan sangat cepat) — hanya dengan bekerja 2 (dua) jam per minggu.
Jadi kalau ada yang mengatakan bahwa Anda tidak akan bisa untung dengan cepat dari berbisnis di internet, maka perkataan itu 100% salah, tidak benar. Mereka yang mengatakan demikian itu mungkin belum tahu caranya (itu yang membedakan kita dengan para super affiliate tersebut) atau takut saingan bertambah atau ingin meraup semua keuntungan untuk diri mereka sendiri (karena tidak ada saingan baru) atau mungkin mereka menganggap hasil seperti itu termasuk lama… (wow!)
Ingatlah bahwa : kesempatan itu selalu ada, jangan berputus asa, tapi juga jangan berharap berlebihan. Yang sedang-sedang saja.
(6). Spamming
Bagi yang belum tahu apa itu spam (dan saya yakin sudah pada tahu), definisi singkatnya adalah mengirim pesan-pesan yang tidak diminta ke orang-orang yang tidak menginginkannya.
Contoh yang bisa Anda lihat, silakan login ke account email Anda. Saya yakin ada banyak pesan komersial di sana yang tidak pernah Anda inginkan. Itulah spam. Dan bentuk lainnya yang biasa muncul adalah di forum-forum diskusi, orang yang baru mendaftar langsung tiba-tiba langsung membuat sebuah thread diskusi baru berisi promosi dari produk tertentu. Menyebalkan bukan?
Nah bagi Anda yang baru memulai internet marketing, biasanya akan tergoda dengan model promosi seperti ini. Alasannya : mudah dan murah, hehe =D
Well, tapi bagi Anda yang sering melakukan cara ini, saran saya : hentikan. Ini bukanlah cara yang bagus untuk melakukan promo. Orang tidak akan melihat iklan Anda. Yang melihat pun tidak peduli. Yang peduli pun tidak berminat mengikuti link Anda.
Jika Anda memang seorang newbie, belum punya web sendiri untuk promosi, belum mempunyai sebuah newsletter sendiri, sebaiknya Anda memasang iklan berbayar saja yang bertipe PPC (GoogleAdwords, Kumpulblogger, KlikSaya, AdsenseCamp, dst…). Dengan memasang iklan di jaringan mereka iklan Anda akan jauh lebih efektif. Orang yang mengklik iklan Anda benar-benar orang yang tertarik dan iklan Anda pun tersebar langsung ke ribuan blog di luar sana — sangat cepat.
Memang agak mahal, tetapi seperti saya katakan sebelumnya : untuk setiap produk berbayar, selalu ada nilai lebih yang Anda dapatkan dari setiap rupiah yang Anda bayarkan.
Tapi awas, Anda bisa rugi jika Anda………..
(7). Beriklan PPC secara sembarangan
Yang saya maksud di sini adalah mengeluarkan modal sangat besar untuk beriklan PPC, tanpa mengukur hasilnya apakah optimal atau tidak. Hasilnya adalah kantong bolong, sales kosong.
Seharusnya yang dilakukan adalah membuat suatu landing page (presell page) tersendiri, mencoba iklan dengan modal terbatas lalu test hasilnya. Kalau jelek, optimasi. Kalau bagus, langsung lipatgandakan biaya iklannya untuk melipatgandakan sales yang Anda dapatkan.
Informasi :
Pernah dengar ada yang bilang mencari traffik itu “harus” susah dan “harus” lama? Hmm… mungkin yang bilang belum tahu tentang PPC (atau mungkin lupa). Faktanya adalah dengan PPC mencari traffik menjadi lebih cepat (bisa dibilang instant) dan jauh lebih mudah (gk perlu SEO atau promo manual ke sana-sini).
Pengalaman saya pribadi saya dengan PPC : saya bisa membuat setiap US$ 1 yang saya keluarkan menghasilkan komisi affiliasi US$ 4, dalam 3 jam (cepat) cukup dengan membuat sebuah presell page (mudah) dengan memasang iklan di jaringan PPC tertentu (jaringan kecil, bukan Google Adwords yang jelas).
Pelajaran yg bisa dipetik :
Cara yang cepat dan mudah untuk mencari profit di internet itu ada, bukan khayalan. Tidak “harus” susah dan tidak “harus” lama (what a wrong mindset!). Hanya saja cara itu biasanya mahal, sebab Anda harus membayar orang lain untuk membuat semuanya menjadi mudah dan cepat (semua bisnis perlu modal).
Cara itu disebut : beriklan PPC.
Memang PPC agak mahal dan beresiko, tapi seperti kata Steve Pavlina :
“Untuk bisa sukses dalam berbisnis, Anda tidak boleh takut kehilangan apa yang Anda miliki (uang, waktu, tenaga).
Yang harus Anda takuti adalah kehilangan kesempatan meraih untung yang banyak karena tidak mau mengorbankan sedikit bagian saja dari uang, waktu dan tenaga Anda.”
Steve Pavlina, Personal Development Coach
StevePavlina.Com
(8) Keluar Dari Pekerjaan Sekarang Juga
Untuk yang terakhir ini sebelumnya tidak terbayangkan oleh saya. Tapi faktanya ada beberapa orang yang menghubungi saya dan bertanya apakah sebaiknya mereka keluar kerja untuk fokus (fulltime) berbisnis online?
Well, berhubung ini posting untuk newbie dan biasanya newbie income onlinenya belum stabil, maka saya katakan : TIDAK. Jangan pernah berpikiran seperti itu (dahulu).
Perlu Anda tahu income dari bisnis online itu sangat fluktuatif. Catat baik-baik.
Saya punya dua kasus,
Pertama : Seorang senior SMA saya, teman sejak SMP, yang juga sama-sama mencoba peruntungan di dunia online pada mulanya bisa mendapat untung sekitar US$ 40+ per hari. Tapi dalam dua minggu saja, tiba-tiba dia kehilangan lebih dari US$ 2,000+ (waow!)
Kedua : Seorang anak muda (ehm, saya sendiri, ^^) pada bulan November-Desember 2008 menghasilkan sekitar US$ 4,900+ dari menjual produk-produk orang lain (affiliate marketing). Tapi bulan ini (Januari 2009) saya rugi US$ 1,500+, karena dua situs saya ditendang sama “Mbah Google”.
Nah, Anda bisa lihat betapa jauh sekali hasil incomenya kan? Dari yang semula bisa dapat sekian banyak bisa langsung jatuh rugi sekian banyak. Itulah bisnis, kegagalan bisa terjadi pada siapa saja dan kapan saja.
Nah, sekarang logikanya : jika hal itu bisa terjadi pada kami yang sudah (agak) berpengalaman, bagaimana dengan Anda yang newbie? Berhubung Anda masih newbie, logikanya Anda akan sering gagal dulu. Nah, kalau misalnya gagal terus berkali-kali, Anda mau dapat income dari mana untuk menghidupi diri Anda (dan keluarga)?
Karenanya : jangan berpikiran untuk quit your day job dulu. Lebih baik Anda mematangkan dulu bisnis online Anda, baru keluar kerja kalau memang benar-benar sudah stabil. Saran saya : kalau Anda sudah bisa menghasilkan US$ 1,000+ per bulan dengan stabil, baru Anda bisa quit dari kantor dan konsen berbisnis online.
Atau kalau Anda mau nekat, silakan keluar, tapi siapkan dulu cadangan income dari selain pekerjaan Anda saat ini, sebagai persiapan kalau rugi. Misalnya dengan income dari memiliki minimarket seperti Alfamart / Indomaret (sekitar 8-12 jt / bulan, saya samakan dengan US$ 800 - US$ 1,000).
Well tidak harus US$ 1,000 sebulan, itu hanya kebijakan pribadi saya saja. Kalau Anda pe-de dengan memiliki cadangan passive income (harus passive, sebab full time berbisnis online akan banyak memakan waktu Anda) sebesar income Anda yang sekarang atau mungkin punya cadangan tabungan sebesar 12x income per bulan Anda yang sekarang, saya rasa hal itu juga bisa dipertimbangkan.
Hanya saja saya ingatkan : semua keputusan ada resikonya ada ada konsekuensinya. Bersiaplah untuk apa pun yang terjadi. Dan semoga yang terjadi adalah : Anda untung luar biasa di internet, =)
Well, saya rasa cukup segitu aja nasehatnya. Sekarang waktunya Anda kerja kembali, cari ilmu baru dan praktekkan ilmunya + tangkap pengalamannya. Makin cepat dan makin sering Anda action, maka makin cepat Anda menghilangkan status newbie, =D
All the best! Salam panas!
Salam sukses paaaling sukses!
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01 March 2010
16 February 2010
Tip's Uang Panas
Ada satu iklan yang menarik slogannya tapi saya lupa apa bunyinya ...uangpanas..., coz setelah itu saya keasyikan klak - klik iklan yang lain, tapi yang paling berkesan blognya Bang Haryo Sempet heran juga sih pertama kali denger namanya uangpanas.com. [uangpanas = haram, itu yang saya denger dari ustad ngaji saya plus baca 'n denger dari media massa].
Eh, setelah baca sana-sini.. liat ini-itu.. baru deh ngarti apa maksudnya, bener juga kata pepatah “TAK KENAL MAKA TAK SAYANG”. Buat temen – temen yang mau ngerti-faham-kenal lebih dalem lagi- buruan deh mampir ke blognya untuk "SILATURROHIM" ngga bakal nyesel- di JAMIN, buktiin aja. [SILATURROHIM = biang segala REJEKI].
Ada info dikit buat temen – temen, diweb blog ini bakal dijelasin dan diajarin bagaimana “Tips Strategi Jitu Membangun Bisnis Internet”, Cara Ampuh Menghasilkan Uang Tak Terbatas dari internet, penasaran mau tau tips-tips jitu selengkapnya buruan join, dijamin- halal bin thoyyib. OK segitu dulu deh, sampe ketemu lagi diposting selanjutnya. Moga bermanfaat. Wassalam.
27 December 2009
Review of the Paypal Online Payments Processor
www.paypal.com
Credit card, bank and check/cheque online payments management system to receive and send money through the web.
Let me start by saying that my personal experience to date with Paypal has been 100% satisfactory. I have never had a complaint and besides a sometimes difficult to navigate website the system has always done what I wanted it to do. I’ve processed over $20,000 worth of transactions and never had trouble accessing my money.
An online payment processor is one of the most important parts of an online business. Without the ability to receive money online you can’t really run an Internet business. Sure you could work only with offline payment methods such as money orders, cheques in the mail or cash, but all of these methods are slow and you will definitely be losing potential customers if you don’t offer some form of instant payment method that handles credit cards.
Paypal’s Bad Reputation
When I first hunted for a payments processor, which at the time was for a web hosting business I was planning, I came across Paypal. That was about seven years ago and I’d say my story is a pretty common one since Paypal was one of the first providers of “email currency”, a system where you could send money via email and there were not many options particularly for Australians back then.
As usual I conducted extensive due diligence before deciding to use Paypal. As I read forums and surfed around the web I quickly came to realize that Paypal had a terrible reputation, so bad that some of its detractors had set up a website called PaypalSucks.com, which still functions today.
As someone who has been hit several times by credit card fraud I’m particularly wary of chargebacks from customers who use Paypal to buy things from me with a credit card. To be honest I have very little confidence in Paypal to protect me from chargebacks, but that is more because of the way online transactions work - protecting the buyer, especially when no signature is present (as in all online transactions) - rather than the seller. The best chance I have, and this is where I would expect services like Paypal to protect me, is to stop fraudulent transactions before they occur.
Once the payment is made and the service or product is provided then it’s too late. Chargebacks hurt the bottom line of your business and chances are you won’t be able to beat a chargeback claim as an online merchant with no signature. However if a payment provider can stop a suspect payment using historical data and other fraud detection methods then I will not send the product or provide the service hence eliminating my exposure to loss from chargebacks.
I’ve written extensively about why I’ve recommended Paymate.com.au, an Aussie Paypal-style service, over Paypal in the past, and most of my justification was based on Paymate’s superior fraud prevention. I’ve since changed my mind during the last two years because Paypal has performed well for me and their fees are a good 30% or so cheaper than Paymate and now offer Australian-centric services. I still offer both services to my customers but prefer when they choose Paypal because it’s cheaper for me.
I’ve read the book Paypal Wars which gives a good explanation for why Paypal has such a bad reputation. In a nutshell there were times in the company’s past where it was the target of all kinds of criminal action and it suffered millions of dollars worth of losses. As part of the retaliation against these criminals many honest customers were affected, losing access to their accounts and later resulting in the class action lawsuit which cost Paypal $9.25 million dollars.
Paypal also suffered because of it’s tremendous growth rate. The managers of Paypal are largely to blame since they were focused on customer acquisition above all else during the growth phase of the business. This resulted in a company that simply could not handle the amount of customers it had to deal with and hence the poor customer service reputation.
Despite all the negative history Paypal managed to grow and maintain it’s de facto standard as the leader in online payments. The grumblings from users seems to have reduced in the last few years and my feeling is that the company turned a corner and now has systems in place to deal with fraud and customer support that are far superior to what they had in the late nineties and early two thousands. Paypal has matured through it’s growing pains, and while no doubt there are still issues, the bad stories just aren’t quite as frequent as they used to be (of course this could be because the publicity has been spun in a more positive light, but lets not be skeptical).
The Bad
The fact is there are some pretty bad horror stories of people booted from Paypal for no good reason, having their funds locked away (sometimes thousands of dollars lost) and many tales of poor customer service. I read many negative stories while researching Paypal and became very paranoid. In the end though, I still signed up to be a Paypal user because it had become the standard method of sending money online, which is tantamount to how strong their business model was despite all the negative stories floating around - you couldn’t afford not to use them. I had to offer this method of payment to my customers because I wanted to keep resistance to buy as low as possible, even if it meant risking being the next victim of a Paypal horror story.
Seven years later and happily I have no horror stories to tell. However since this is a review and I always like to discuss both the good and the bad I will tell you what I do and don’t like about Paypal in terms of my experience with it.
The customer service isn’t great. The website attempts it’s hardest to give you answers so you don’t have to query Paypal customer support via email, or heaven forbid, via the phone. Once I have tried to ask a question of their phone support but I gave up, it was just too time consuming. The email support is okay, but often has trouble answering your specific question and tends to send you preformatted template responses, which, if you are lucky, answer about half your question. Mind you the last time I required support was about two years ago and the service has likely improved. It had greatly improved over the previous two years when I last tried customer service so I think they were on the way up and may even be reasonable today.
The website is simply-complicated. Yes the design is simple, which I like, but often you can’t find the answer you want. If all you want to do is use the core functions then the Paypal website is a breeze. In my case I receive credit card payments regularly and spend money from my Paypal balance on auction items and other online purchases. Paypal is perfect for this. The more complicated your needs the more difficulty you are going to experience.
Sometimes the basic functions you would expect are not available or difficult to find. I’ve had trouble for example forcing a payment to come from my credit card and not my Paypal balance. Sometimes what you think would be an intuitive option just isn’t available and you don’t know if it’s because you couldn’t find it or because it doesn’t exist or has been deliberately made not available.
The Good
The multiple currencies system, which finally started servicing Australia recently, is fantastic and I love the way I can transfer balances in and out of different major currencies easily (you can do currency trading just within Paypal, although the rates aren’t great for short term profiteering).
The cut and paste shopping cart functions are ideal for me since I prefer to use very simple plain text “buy now” links. Once again the more complicated your online shopping cart needs the steeper the learning curve you will face integrating it with Paypal.
Paypal recently launched a merchant account service called Payments Pro that functions as a completely seamless online shopping system for your website. Provided you have the shopping cart software you can use Paypal as the gateway and payment processor and it’s completely private label, which means you can brand it as your own. I have not needed to use this service as yet so I cannot make a comment on how good it is.
Conclusion
All-in-all, for what Paypal does - primarily to allow you to send money through email and take credit card payments online - it does well. It makes what could be a terribly complex function, one full of potential security and privacy issues, and turns it into something as simple as sending email. For that they deserve kudos and I’m extremely happy with the core function and recommend it to everyone.
Yes there are customer service issues. Yes Paypal has a fairly rocky history. Yes you open yourself up to potential losses from chargebacks. The fact remains that Paypal is the largest online payments provider and you really can’t afford to not offer this method to your customers.
I recommend making other payment options available to your customers since it’s never good to rely only on one provider. I also recommend you regularly withdraw funds from your Paypal account and put that money to work for you. There is no interest in a Paypal account and you never know when you could be the next victim of a horror story or fraud attack so keep your money where you know it’s safe - in the bank or in investments.
Yaro Starak
Paypal Merchant
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17 December 2009
A Viral Blog From An Authority Site?
Creating authority blogs is becoming greatly popular, but can it also be a viral blog? There are numerous reasons that people are are becoming more interested in taking advantage of this practice. The leading reason being is that a fair share of what used to be effective for marketers honestly isn’t working very well anymore. In many respects, creating a viral blog out of an authority style site, will have great benefits in the future.
Consulting and co-ordinating with quite a few other promoters online, some of us have been seeing a heavy slump in the bulk of profits being created by many different types of products. There has also been some of us paying attention to how much tougher it is to make sales, even with the best products available, and that putting together lists with complimentary reports and the like, is noticeably getting tougher every day.
Personally, I believe it’s because of all of the different giveaway events which have been taking place. Sure, giveaway events are great for helping to build a list, but, the effects are certainly being felt. With so many products being available for free, it seems to have had a damaging effect on the industry as a whole.
It definitely is happening a lot with Resale Rights and PLR variations of products. In a whole bunch of situations, varied types of affiliate earnings are down to. Invariably,this also will depend on which part of the market, you are in, but if you are in the Internet Marketing niche, it has certainly been quite prominent.
In the case of building your lists with free to download reports, it seems to be having limited results since the majority of people have been utilizing this method for quite some time now. Being that most of these reports are complimentary to get their hands on, people are placing very little value on them. This can definitely be the case whether they are supplying to readers extreme high value content for people or not. It’s unfortunate, sometimes people just can’t tell which is of high value or not, since they’ve be onslaughted with so much garbage. It’s only the very intuitive and seasoned marketer that seems to be able to distinguish “what is crap”, and what isn’t.
For newcomers on the scene, they haven’t the knowledge to know the difference yet. It’s very damaging to them as well, when you think about it.
For this reason, and as we’ve been learning with Sam Clark, it’s one of the reasons we need to heavily concentrate on building something of real value, such as an authority site. We must also be fully focused on traffic. By creating a viral blog I’m envisioning your authority style site being much more valuable to you.
Many of the products out there, unfortunately concentrate only on short term profits. Sure, some methods might bring in some fast dollars, but, what about the future of your business when these methods aren’t going to be working anymore, as discussed above. If you build an authority site, we won’t run into these problems in the future. We must always be thinking of the long term goal of our project. Of course we have short term goals, but, by having the long term goal focused in your mind, it will help you to keep plugging away until you get to your destination.
One of the reasons I’m quite reluctant to give bonuses with certain products these days, is that it also seems to hurt the perceived value in which the product really does contain. It’s sort of a toss up, since if you aren’t giving a bonus, a person may just go and purchase the product from somebody else. But, at the same time, with the products I promote, I want integrity in my marketing and quality to to be realized by the customer. I don’t want to water things down so that their perception of a product is now tainted because to sell the product it had to be completely milked with bonuses.
In the time that I’ve been online, I”ve personally read probably well over 100 full length marketing guides from various authors. If you are talking about quality of infomation to be found there are very few guides out there that are even in the realm of quality which people will see from Holly Mann’s newest guide (soon to be released), or Affiliate Payload, and a few others. The information contained in guides of this caliber far surpass the outlay of the prices for these guides. Products such as this, really don’t need any bonuses, this information is pure gold, and worth thousands to the recipients if the techniques are applied. The sad part is, that many people won’t even realize it, because of all the garbage they’ve already been exposed to.
One of the reasons, I created The Elite Breed Newsletter a while back, was because I just couldn’t stand what marketers were doing anymore, to be completely blunt. A lot of marketers out there are marketing anything and everything under the sun, just to make the quick buck. Marketers like this, I feel have a complete disregard, and dis-respect, for their customers. With The Elite Breed Newsletter I really wanted to make a difference in people’s lives by only leading them with the “real” information that they need, and clear the clutter in which they have all been exposed. Whether or not, I’m making a difference with it or not, I’m not quite sure..but, in time, I hope to.
Viral blogging, authority sites, and the use of Social sites is now one of the best things to consider in my opinion. I believe it will save the marketers who want to be in this business in 10 or 20 years.
Building powerful authority style types of sites and blogging has become a real staple recently. When you are taking the time and effort that is required in making a site be known as an authority site, you will have a true piece of value on the internet for years to come. Eminently, if you can create a viral blog out of the authority site you are building, it stands to generate big rewards in the future. Viral marketing can work out with your blog just about the same as in many other types of viral avenues. Actually, the fact that it is a blog is fantastic because of all the functionality and viral respects that can be resulted from a blog.
Is it safe to say that a person ought to be devising an authority site to establish it as a a viral blog? Yes, without a second thought. If you are capable of doing the work on a regular basis, and create a viral blog with your authority site it will be have a life force of it’s own in the future. It will most likely turn out to be less upkeep and work in the future, after a lot of hard work in the beginning. The viral blog effect can be a real asset and value to you.
Consequently, there is a vast amount of you that may be thinking about the question of, “Which blogging platform would be excellent to be building your blog and authority site from?” There is no hesitation in saying, Wordpress is the way to go. Wordpress has the most functionality and personalization options available to people simply because of all of the various plug-ins that can be put to use for your viral blog. Wordpress, is undoubtedly a perfect answer for the viral blogger in you. There are a few other platforms you could use, but, it’s likely most won’t have options for you to be putting to good use. Viral internet marketing with blogs is here to stay, the sooner you get started…the better.
The greatest in all you do,
Make Success Yours!
Davin
“The Davinator”
Read more...
Consulting and co-ordinating with quite a few other promoters online, some of us have been seeing a heavy slump in the bulk of profits being created by many different types of products. There has also been some of us paying attention to how much tougher it is to make sales, even with the best products available, and that putting together lists with complimentary reports and the like, is noticeably getting tougher every day.
Personally, I believe it’s because of all of the different giveaway events which have been taking place. Sure, giveaway events are great for helping to build a list, but, the effects are certainly being felt. With so many products being available for free, it seems to have had a damaging effect on the industry as a whole.
It definitely is happening a lot with Resale Rights and PLR variations of products. In a whole bunch of situations, varied types of affiliate earnings are down to. Invariably,this also will depend on which part of the market, you are in, but if you are in the Internet Marketing niche, it has certainly been quite prominent.
In the case of building your lists with free to download reports, it seems to be having limited results since the majority of people have been utilizing this method for quite some time now. Being that most of these reports are complimentary to get their hands on, people are placing very little value on them. This can definitely be the case whether they are supplying to readers extreme high value content for people or not. It’s unfortunate, sometimes people just can’t tell which is of high value or not, since they’ve be onslaughted with so much garbage. It’s only the very intuitive and seasoned marketer that seems to be able to distinguish “what is crap”, and what isn’t.
For newcomers on the scene, they haven’t the knowledge to know the difference yet. It’s very damaging to them as well, when you think about it.
For this reason, and as we’ve been learning with Sam Clark, it’s one of the reasons we need to heavily concentrate on building something of real value, such as an authority site. We must also be fully focused on traffic. By creating a viral blog I’m envisioning your authority style site being much more valuable to you.
Many of the products out there, unfortunately concentrate only on short term profits. Sure, some methods might bring in some fast dollars, but, what about the future of your business when these methods aren’t going to be working anymore, as discussed above. If you build an authority site, we won’t run into these problems in the future. We must always be thinking of the long term goal of our project. Of course we have short term goals, but, by having the long term goal focused in your mind, it will help you to keep plugging away until you get to your destination.
One of the reasons I’m quite reluctant to give bonuses with certain products these days, is that it also seems to hurt the perceived value in which the product really does contain. It’s sort of a toss up, since if you aren’t giving a bonus, a person may just go and purchase the product from somebody else. But, at the same time, with the products I promote, I want integrity in my marketing and quality to to be realized by the customer. I don’t want to water things down so that their perception of a product is now tainted because to sell the product it had to be completely milked with bonuses.
In the time that I’ve been online, I”ve personally read probably well over 100 full length marketing guides from various authors. If you are talking about quality of infomation to be found there are very few guides out there that are even in the realm of quality which people will see from Holly Mann’s newest guide (soon to be released), or Affiliate Payload, and a few others. The information contained in guides of this caliber far surpass the outlay of the prices for these guides. Products such as this, really don’t need any bonuses, this information is pure gold, and worth thousands to the recipients if the techniques are applied. The sad part is, that many people won’t even realize it, because of all the garbage they’ve already been exposed to.
One of the reasons, I created The Elite Breed Newsletter a while back, was because I just couldn’t stand what marketers were doing anymore, to be completely blunt. A lot of marketers out there are marketing anything and everything under the sun, just to make the quick buck. Marketers like this, I feel have a complete disregard, and dis-respect, for their customers. With The Elite Breed Newsletter I really wanted to make a difference in people’s lives by only leading them with the “real” information that they need, and clear the clutter in which they have all been exposed. Whether or not, I’m making a difference with it or not, I’m not quite sure..but, in time, I hope to.
Viral blogging, authority sites, and the use of Social sites is now one of the best things to consider in my opinion. I believe it will save the marketers who want to be in this business in 10 or 20 years.
Building powerful authority style types of sites and blogging has become a real staple recently. When you are taking the time and effort that is required in making a site be known as an authority site, you will have a true piece of value on the internet for years to come. Eminently, if you can create a viral blog out of the authority site you are building, it stands to generate big rewards in the future. Viral marketing can work out with your blog just about the same as in many other types of viral avenues. Actually, the fact that it is a blog is fantastic because of all the functionality and viral respects that can be resulted from a blog.
Is it safe to say that a person ought to be devising an authority site to establish it as a a viral blog? Yes, without a second thought. If you are capable of doing the work on a regular basis, and create a viral blog with your authority site it will be have a life force of it’s own in the future. It will most likely turn out to be less upkeep and work in the future, after a lot of hard work in the beginning. The viral blog effect can be a real asset and value to you.
Consequently, there is a vast amount of you that may be thinking about the question of, “Which blogging platform would be excellent to be building your blog and authority site from?” There is no hesitation in saying, Wordpress is the way to go. Wordpress has the most functionality and personalization options available to people simply because of all of the various plug-ins that can be put to use for your viral blog. Wordpress, is undoubtedly a perfect answer for the viral blogger in you. There are a few other platforms you could use, but, it’s likely most won’t have options for you to be putting to good use. Viral internet marketing with blogs is here to stay, the sooner you get started…the better.
The greatest in all you do,
Make Success Yours!
Davin
“The Davinator”
Read more...
04 December 2009
How To Become A Great Affiliate Marketer In 8 Easy Steps
by BILL ACHOLA WRIGHT
(1). Decide whether you're in or you're out. Affiliate marketing is not the simplest means of earning income. If you're looking for "easy," get a McJob flipping burgers or doing customer service. Affiliate marketing requires that you be intelligent, resourceful, and entrepreneurial. The benefits offered by various free affiliate programs are usually enough to get you started down the path.
(2). Learn basic web programming. While you can get away without knowing any programming at all, having a good understanding of HTML markup and even a basic programming language like PHP will get you far, and you'll be ahead of about 90% of your competition. Free affiliate programs usually do not offer services that teach you how to program. This you'll have to learn on your own.
(3). Get up to speed on marketing and advertising techniques. Unless you're coming from a background in marketing or you have a MBA, the most experience you've likely had with the subject is being the recipient of advertising. You must learn how to create ads that sell, or at least be able to recognize good ad copy from bad copy if you choose to outsource your advertising development. A free affiliate program may offer you advertising examples you can use as your own.
(4). Find a free affiliate program that can mentor you. Many of the best free affiliate programs offer a section for new affiliates that can get you up to speed on the efficient promotion of their product or service. Some programs will even give you a free version of their product to help you better understand promotion methods.
(5). Decide what marketing methods you want to use. There are a multitude of ways to get people visiting your affiliate promotions. Some are free, while some cost money. Free methods usually take time, whereas paid marketing generally has more immediate results.
(6). Build your affiliate marketing campaign. This is where everything you've learned above comes together. Your first attempts may bomb. Don't fret. Persistence pays off in affiliate marketing, and since you've chosen to promote products from free affiliate programs, your investment is minimal.
(7). Launch! This is the easiest part. Sit back and see what happens.
(8). Analyze the results. And this is the most important part. If you don't understand what's happening in your campaigns, and how to fix it, then you won't be successful. Your free affiliate program may offer resources which will help you better understand the results of your marketing. http://tinyurl.com/dmyexq
About the Author
Am BILL ACHOLA WRIGHT and I write Business Reviews programs to help online users to purchase the right program and to be full time and part time successful entrepreneur.Currently am in the Internet marketing industry,where by i have developed the TOP BUSINESS MONEY MAKING PROGRAMS which has been proven, cost-effective online marketing strategies and software since 1998.
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(1). Decide whether you're in or you're out. Affiliate marketing is not the simplest means of earning income. If you're looking for "easy," get a McJob flipping burgers or doing customer service. Affiliate marketing requires that you be intelligent, resourceful, and entrepreneurial. The benefits offered by various free affiliate programs are usually enough to get you started down the path.
(2). Learn basic web programming. While you can get away without knowing any programming at all, having a good understanding of HTML markup and even a basic programming language like PHP will get you far, and you'll be ahead of about 90% of your competition. Free affiliate programs usually do not offer services that teach you how to program. This you'll have to learn on your own.
(3). Get up to speed on marketing and advertising techniques. Unless you're coming from a background in marketing or you have a MBA, the most experience you've likely had with the subject is being the recipient of advertising. You must learn how to create ads that sell, or at least be able to recognize good ad copy from bad copy if you choose to outsource your advertising development. A free affiliate program may offer you advertising examples you can use as your own.
(4). Find a free affiliate program that can mentor you. Many of the best free affiliate programs offer a section for new affiliates that can get you up to speed on the efficient promotion of their product or service. Some programs will even give you a free version of their product to help you better understand promotion methods.
(5). Decide what marketing methods you want to use. There are a multitude of ways to get people visiting your affiliate promotions. Some are free, while some cost money. Free methods usually take time, whereas paid marketing generally has more immediate results.
(6). Build your affiliate marketing campaign. This is where everything you've learned above comes together. Your first attempts may bomb. Don't fret. Persistence pays off in affiliate marketing, and since you've chosen to promote products from free affiliate programs, your investment is minimal.
(7). Launch! This is the easiest part. Sit back and see what happens.
(8). Analyze the results. And this is the most important part. If you don't understand what's happening in your campaigns, and how to fix it, then you won't be successful. Your free affiliate program may offer resources which will help you better understand the results of your marketing. http://tinyurl.com/dmyexq
About the Author
Am BILL ACHOLA WRIGHT and I write Business Reviews programs to help online users to purchase the right program and to be full time and part time successful entrepreneur.Currently am in the Internet marketing industry,where by i have developed the TOP BUSINESS MONEY MAKING PROGRAMS which has been proven, cost-effective online marketing strategies and software since 1998.
Read more...
24 November 2009
Affiliate Marketing Profits - 3 Cash Sucking Tips To Boost Profits
by Zack Lim
Affiliate marketing is a great way to start if you're planning on making money through the World Wide Web. To give you, the marketer, a head start here are some affiliate marketing tips that will help you :
Tip # 1:
The first thing you have to remember is that in affiliate marketing, there is no such thing as the best merchant program. Different programs work with different marketers, so you need to figure out which program works for you before starting on your campaigns. For beginners, it's usually best to start with a single merchant program before proceeding to multiply merchant programs.
Tip # 2:
You can always visit affiliate marketing forums for guidance, tips, advices, etc from other experienced marketers. Here, you will also find interesting information regarding affiliate marketing that might actually help you improve your campaign. This is also a great place to create business ventures, connections, and develop long-term relationships with other fellow affiliate marketers.
Tip # 3:
Last, it is vital that you create a website that contains quality content and that hold interesting information about the products that you are selling. As much as possible, you should try to keep and maintain a website wherein customers can easily have access to your products in just a click of a button. In truth, it is difficult to lead a customer from the affiliate website to the merchant website without having to devote much time in tempting and sparking interest in the person about the product.
Here are the 3 cash sucking tips which you can use in your online business to greatly boost your affiliate income. Do apply it and you will see the differences.
About the Author
Zack Lim is an internet affiliate marketer who owns http://www.MyAffiliateMarketingOnline.com/FreeEcourse . He has helped hundreds of people to start their own affiliate marketing business.
He's recently developed a free e-course showing you a step by step process for starting your own affiliate marketing business easier. To learn how to start your own affiliate marketing business without wasting your time and money, visit http://www.MyAffiliateMarketingOnline.com/FreeEcourse
Read more...
Affiliate marketing is a great way to start if you're planning on making money through the World Wide Web. To give you, the marketer, a head start here are some affiliate marketing tips that will help you :
Tip # 1:
The first thing you have to remember is that in affiliate marketing, there is no such thing as the best merchant program. Different programs work with different marketers, so you need to figure out which program works for you before starting on your campaigns. For beginners, it's usually best to start with a single merchant program before proceeding to multiply merchant programs.
Tip # 2:
You can always visit affiliate marketing forums for guidance, tips, advices, etc from other experienced marketers. Here, you will also find interesting information regarding affiliate marketing that might actually help you improve your campaign. This is also a great place to create business ventures, connections, and develop long-term relationships with other fellow affiliate marketers.
Tip # 3:
Last, it is vital that you create a website that contains quality content and that hold interesting information about the products that you are selling. As much as possible, you should try to keep and maintain a website wherein customers can easily have access to your products in just a click of a button. In truth, it is difficult to lead a customer from the affiliate website to the merchant website without having to devote much time in tempting and sparking interest in the person about the product.
Here are the 3 cash sucking tips which you can use in your online business to greatly boost your affiliate income. Do apply it and you will see the differences.
About the Author
Zack Lim is an internet affiliate marketer who owns http://www.MyAffiliateMarketingOnline.com/FreeEcourse . He has helped hundreds of people to start their own affiliate marketing business.
He's recently developed a free e-course showing you a step by step process for starting your own affiliate marketing business easier. To learn how to start your own affiliate marketing business without wasting your time and money, visit http://www.MyAffiliateMarketingOnline.com/FreeEcourse
Read more...
20 November 2009
How to make free money from your blog using Bidvertiser
by Angie Johnston
Make money from your Website or Blog with BidVertiser. Bidbertiser is just like Google adsense, only you have more options of how you want your ads to look and you have more ways to make money. The other things about Google adsense is that you are only allowed 3 ad blocks per page of your web page. If your blogging for money than 3 ad blocks isn't going to cut it, you'll need to find other advertising companies to put on your page for more revenue opportunities. On one of my more profitable blogs i am using Google Adsense, Kontera (in-text ads), Bidvertiser and if i find a good product that relates i sometimes use Amazon and Clickbank. Though many of Clickbanks capture pages turn me off for some reason.
With Bidvertiser you can make money 3 ways :
First is pay per click revenue -You get paid every time a visitor clicks on one of your ads. The ad block choices are very similar to Google Adsense, with a few extra choices.
Second is to refer advertisers -When a user signs as an advertiser and first spends $10, Bidvertiser will credit your account with $5. When that same advertiser spends $50, you will be credited with an additional $20 and so on.
-Another great thing about referring advertisers is that bidvertiser offers and excellent reward for the advertiser. When they sign up they are given they're fir $20 worth of ppv for free. They don't even have to spend any money first, its just free
Third is to refer publishers -When a user signs as a publisher and first earns $10, Bidvertiser will credit your account with $10. When that same publisher earns $50, you will be credited with an additional $40 and so on.
I won't lie, if you were to click a link from this article and sign up as a publisher for Bidvertiser I will be paid. But that doesn't make this any less of a money making opportunity for you and lets face it, no matter what, someone will make money when you sign up. Why not help a fellow blogger? Bidvertiser, like Kontera (i really recommend kontera btw) and Google Adsense are 100% free to use if you are a publisher, obviously it costs to advertise just like Google Adwords.
You can make money by referring new publishers many ways. Bidvertiser has many pre-made advertisements that you can add to your page specifically for bringing in new publishers or advertisers (like an affiliate program with really awesome rewards). Also you can create a small sentence placed at the end of every post that will lead people to the bidvertiser web site. (I have added a advertisement in my signature, less work that way.) Of course it wouldn't hurt to write an article every now and again, as every webmaster online who is trying to make they're fortune knows, articles are a easy way to get your information out to people and get listed on Google.
So good luck to you all with your monetizing!
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Make money from your Website or Blog with BidVertiser. Bidbertiser is just like Google adsense, only you have more options of how you want your ads to look and you have more ways to make money. The other things about Google adsense is that you are only allowed 3 ad blocks per page of your web page. If your blogging for money than 3 ad blocks isn't going to cut it, you'll need to find other advertising companies to put on your page for more revenue opportunities. On one of my more profitable blogs i am using Google Adsense, Kontera (in-text ads), Bidvertiser and if i find a good product that relates i sometimes use Amazon and Clickbank. Though many of Clickbanks capture pages turn me off for some reason.
With Bidvertiser you can make money 3 ways :
First is pay per click revenue -You get paid every time a visitor clicks on one of your ads. The ad block choices are very similar to Google Adsense, with a few extra choices.
Second is to refer advertisers -When a user signs as an advertiser and first spends $10, Bidvertiser will credit your account with $5. When that same advertiser spends $50, you will be credited with an additional $20 and so on.
-Another great thing about referring advertisers is that bidvertiser offers and excellent reward for the advertiser. When they sign up they are given they're fir $20 worth of ppv for free. They don't even have to spend any money first, its just free
Third is to refer publishers -When a user signs as a publisher and first earns $10, Bidvertiser will credit your account with $10. When that same publisher earns $50, you will be credited with an additional $40 and so on.
I won't lie, if you were to click a link from this article and sign up as a publisher for Bidvertiser I will be paid. But that doesn't make this any less of a money making opportunity for you and lets face it, no matter what, someone will make money when you sign up. Why not help a fellow blogger? Bidvertiser, like Kontera (i really recommend kontera btw) and Google Adsense are 100% free to use if you are a publisher, obviously it costs to advertise just like Google Adwords.
You can make money by referring new publishers many ways. Bidvertiser has many pre-made advertisements that you can add to your page specifically for bringing in new publishers or advertisers (like an affiliate program with really awesome rewards). Also you can create a small sentence placed at the end of every post that will lead people to the bidvertiser web site. (I have added a advertisement in my signature, less work that way.) Of course it wouldn't hurt to write an article every now and again, as every webmaster online who is trying to make they're fortune knows, articles are a easy way to get your information out to people and get listed on Google.
So good luck to you all with your monetizing!
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